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Individualized Perspective on Spatial Restructuring of E-commerce Villages: A Case Study of Village Q in Shaanxi Province, China
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The introduction of e-commerce in rural areas is profoundly reshaping the modes of production and lifestyle in these regions, altering the developmental trajectories of villagers, and promoting the restructuring of rural spaces. This study uses Q Village in Shaanxi Province, China,as a case study, employing semi-structured interviews, activity log surveys, and sales data analysis to explore the spatial restructuring of the rural e-commerce landscape from an individual perspective. The findings reveal: (1) E-commerce provides unique developmental pathways for rural individuals, enabling them to transcend traditional kinship and geographic constraints and establish a nationwide economic network, thereby enhancing their economic income; (2) E-commerce expands the sales reach of rural individuals, shifting the traditional geographically-based economic patterns towards regionalization; (3) Ecommerce transforms the traditional organization of production spaces in rural areas, moving from a village-centered to a layout centered around fields, residences, and towns; (4) Under the influence of ecommerce, the living time of rural individuals is compressed by production demands, increasing temporal pressures on individuals. These results offer insights for developing and constructing rural spaces influenced by e-commerce.
Keywords: E-commerce Villages, Spatial Restructuring, Individualization, Rural Revitalizationpublished versio
Urban heat mitigation effect and affordable housing greenery injustice measured by Green View Index (GVI): A case study in Washington, D.C.
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The deterioration of living conditions is highlighting the benefits of urban greenery for creating sustainable cities. Using Washington D.C. as a case, we demonstrate the performance of GVI and examine disparities in greening surrounding affordable housing. With the pre-trained segmentation model, we generated GVI based on 54,691 Street View images and applied the Spearman's correlation analysis to examine LST cooling effect. We found that LST shows significant negative correlations (p<0.001) with GVI and newly developed GVI-3D with coefficients of -0.60 and -0.73. The distribution of GVI in residential zoning was polarised, affordable housing projects have less greenery. In conclusion, we argue that it is of practical significance to monitor GVI instead of large scale NDVI for urban environments due to its controllability and human-centric attributes.
Keywords: Green View Index, Temperature mitigation, Street greenery, Housing environment, Environmental justicepublished versio
Transhumance routes as tourist destinations: a concrete opportunity for inner areas or a romantic suggestion?
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024The ancient practice of transhumance has generated on a large part of the Mediterranean territories a heritage of an intangible type (linked to the historical, cultural and socioanthropological value), and of a material type, consisting of the infrastructures used for centuries to move herds, characterised by intrinsic landscape and environmental qualities. In recent years, a renewed attention is emerging towards transhumance and the routes used for this purpose. In various European contexts a growing number of initiatives linked to the promotion of transhumance and to the enhancement of its routes are being implemented, both thanks to the bottom-up contribution of local associations and to top-down policies and projects. The research collects the ongoing experiences related to transhumance from the Italian, French and Spanish context, with the purpose of providing a contribution to answering the following questions: can transhumance be converted into a tourist experience with positive effects on the territory? How can the ancient transhumance routes be reconverted into infrastructures for slow tourism, enhancing the identity culture linked to it?
Keywords: transhumance, slow tourism, experiential tourism, inner areaspublished versio
Administrative boundary effects of cross-border migration of manufacturing enterprises: a case study from the Pearl River Delta in China
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024This study examines the migration trajectories of 468 representative leading manufacturing enterprises in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region, aiming to analyze the impact of various administrative boundaries on the relocation and site selection decisions of these enterprises. The analysis focuses on the cross-boundary migration behavior of enterprises at both the inter-prefecture-level city and intra-prefecture-level city levels. The key findings are: (1) Despite the highly contiguous urban development in the PRD region, few enterprises choose to migrate across prefecture-level cities. (2) Driven by cost considerations and the local industrial network, urban boundary areas have become a significant target for enterprise relocation. (3) County/district and street boundaries within cities do not impose constraints on enterprise migration. Instead, intra-prefecture-level city migration is relatively frequent.
Keywords: Administrative boundary, Manufacturing enterprises, Cross-boundary migration, Dynamic mechanism, Pearl River Deltapublished versio
How to deal with conflictual central policy incentives? Regional governance dynamics in Flanders unpacked
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024In most European nation-states, addressing societal challenges demands collaborative approaches and broad actor coalitions. The regional level, often cited as conducive to policy integration, serves as a platform for diverse societal objectives. Despite extensive literature on policy initiatives at the regional level, the configuration and interweaving of the regional space as a result of divergent central policy incentives remain understudied. This paper addresses this research gap by focusing on Flanders, where diverse regional policy initiatives and reforms are shaping a complex ensemble. Specifically, we examine the interplay of three recent central Flemish policy initiatives. We analyze how these initiatives interact, potentially leading to conflicts or innovations, and highlight tensions and trade-offs underlying them. By studying this interplay, we aim to contribute to understanding conflict dynamics in regional governance arrangements and their implications for the academic debate on planning and governance.
Keywords: intergovernmental collaboration, rescaling, regional governance, conflictpublished versio
Housing improvement in historic districts oriented towards the people’s "sense of gain": A case of Shanghai, China
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024In recent years, China proposed the concept of people's "sense of gain" as the highest criterion for measuring urban development. This paper explains the connotation of the concept and suggests it emphasizes comprehensive material and spiritual development, promotion of fairness and justice through community participation, and mechanism and policy innovation. In Shanghai's practices of housing improvement in historic residential districts, how does it foster a "sense of gain" among the communities? The paper reviews three housing improvement methods in Shanghai since the 1990s and examines their changes, efforts, experiences, and shortcomings from the aspects of the content of housing improvement, the degree and frequency of residents' participation, and mechanism and policy innovation. The paper suggests, that in Shanghai’s housing improvement practices, the goals are shifting from the mere expansion of living space to considering spiritual aspects such as social relationships and place attachment, and active and deep community involvement enhances residents' satisfaction and the fairness of the renewal outcomes. All these contribute to increasing disadvantaged groups’ “sense of gain”.
Keywords: people’s sense of gain, housing improvement, historic preservation, urban regeneration, Shanghaipublished versio
Research on Urban Sharing Linear Space Design Based on Walking Experience
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024As urbanization accelerates, addressing the basic walking experience needs of citizens in urban spaces becomes increasingly crucial in urban planning and design. This study focuses on the walking experience during the design of urban spaces, with special attention to the sharing design in linear spaces. The paper focuses on the urban mobility space in Shanghai, China, and employs field research, morphological typology, and ethnographic research to study spatial typologies, and categorises it into five spatial forms and three functional types. The study then proposes five elements and corresponding design strategies for the sharing design of urban linear spaces from the perspective of walking experience, including path networks, spatial interfaces, landscape nodes, sharing spaces and social feedback management. The study hopes to optimise the design of urban linear spaces to make walkable urban spaces, enhancing the walking experience shared by all and promoting the sustainable development of the urban environment.published versio
Transit-Oriented Development Approach to Social Sustainability, Doha city as a Case Study
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024Transit-oriented developments (TODs) are widely used to promote sustainable mobility by encouraging residents to use public transportation and to reduce car dependence (Calthorpe, 1993). Doha, the capital of Qatar, has faced numerous challenges including excessive reliance on private vehicles and lack of integrated last-mile connections. This study points to better integrating TOD models with sustainability indicators, to achieve more sustainable urban development. Quantitative and qualitative methodologies were used, including literature review concentrating on TOD and sustainable urban mobility, SWOT assessment, site analysis, data collection from the Qatar Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME), consultant companies, and Qatar Railways Company. The study demonstrates the adaptation of TOD approach to non-western country through promoting socio-cultural spaces, heat mitigation strategy, integrated transport system, and more community engagements.
Keywords: Transit-Oriented Development, Sustainable Development, travel behaviour, Doha, Qatarpublished versio
Women’s Participation in the Context of Urban Renewal in China: A Case Study of Yulin Community in Chengdu
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024As one of the main concerns of urban studies, more and more scholars have paid attention to the interaction of the government, community, residents and other stakeholders in the process of urban renewal, as well as the significance of participatory planning for the sustainability of cities. Strikingly, however, there are few studies on the gender dimensions of participants. In fact, in an urban renewal project in Yulin Community of Chengdu, I observed that women were the major participants in the process. Therefore, this study uses the theory of intersectionality to analyse the three different female groups in this urban renewal project, including professional women, female community workers and female resident activists. The diverse rights, knowledge, ethics and other backgrounds held by different female groups led to complex participation motivations, processes and outcomes, to fill the research gap of the gender dimension in the participation process.
Keywords: Urban renewal; Women’s participation; Intersectionality; Feminism; Space power relationpublished versio
Projecting The Future: Scenario Building and Storytelling for Holistic Perception of Future Context
No full textGame changer? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions, Paris, 8-12th July 2024In this paper, hybrid use of scenario development and storytelling tools is discussed to enhance the design process and how they can be used in the field of urban design to create solutions to the wicked problems of the future. The workshop in which the proposed scenario building and storytelling processes were experienced was presented and how the methodology used in this study was developed, its findings and outcomes were introduced. As a result, it was determined that by integrating these tools into the design processes, the needed common idea development platform was created and design teams from different disciplines were enabled to holistically define the unpredictable context of the future and accordingly, a positive contribution was obtained in the development of the design idea.
Keywords: Scenario building, storytelling, future context, design education, wicked problemspublished versio